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 "Est medius ordo et velut equestris Ingeniorum quidem sagacium et rebus humanis commodorum, non tamen in primam magnitudi nem patentium. Eorum hominum, ut ita dicam, major annona est. Sedulum esse, nihil temere loqui, assuescere labori, et imagine pru dentiæ & modestiæ tegere angustiores partes captûs dum exercita tionem et usum, quo isti in civilibus rebus pollent, pro natura et magnitudine ingenii plerique accipiunt." , p.71.

"As therefore, physicians are many times forced to leave such meth ods of curing as themselves know to be fittest, and being over-ruled by the sick man's impatience, are fain to try the best they can: in like sort, considering how the case doth stand with this present age, full of tongue and weak of brain, behold we would (if our subject permitted it) yield to the stream thereof. That way we would be contented to prove our thesis, which being the worse in itself, is notwithstanding now by reason of common imbecility the fitter and likelier to be brooked." —Author:Richard Hooker.

If this fear could be rationally entertained in the controversial age of Hooker, under the then robust discipline of the scholastic logic, par donably may a writer of the present times anticipate a scanty audience for abstrusest themes, and truths that can neither be communicated